Monferrier Dorval

Last updated
Monferrier Dorval
Ordre des Avocats de Port-au-Prince
Personal details
Born(1956-06-10)10 June 1956
Grande-Saline, Haiti
Died(2020-08-28)28 August 2020
Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Monferrier Dorval, born in Grande-Saline, town of the Artibonite department on June 10, 1956, was the president of the Ordre des Avocats de Port-au-Prince ("order of the lawyers"), assassinated in his private residence on August 28, 2020.

Contents

Life

Monferrier Dorval left his home town in 1969 after completing his primary education. He subsequently attended Lycée Alexandre Pétion where he completed his secondary studies in 1976.[ citation needed ] In the process, he was admitted to the Faculty of Human Sciences of the State University of Haiti where he followed a course in social work until 1980.[ citation needed ] In 1981, he joined as a student the Faculty of Law and Economics (FDSE) of the State University of Haiti.[ citation needed ]

Winner of a competition organized by the French Embassy in Haiti, Dorval was the recipient of one of two masters scholarships available under an agreement between the FDSE and the University of Aix-Marseille.[ citation needed ] He went to study in France, at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille, where he presented his doctoral thesis on the Haitian public administration on July 8, 1992, and returned to Haiti in 1993.[ citation needed ]

From November 1993, he began teaching constitutional and administrative law at Quisqueya University. In January 1994, he joined the faculty of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the UEH. [1]

Back in Haiti, he was sworn in as a lawyer at the Ordre des Avocats de Port-au-Prince in 1993 and began his career as a lawyer with the law firm Lamarre. He opened his own firm, Dorval, on January 3, 2000. In 2015, he was elected to the Council of the Port-au-Prince Bar Association. In the process, he was appointed president of the scientific commission of the first Bar of the Caribbean. In December 2017, he chaired the Organizing Committee of the 32nd Congress of the International Conference of Bars (CIB) in Haiti and of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA) seminar held in Decameron in May 2019. On February 6, 2020, he won the Port-au-Prince bar elections, with 228 votes against his opponents Patrick Laurent (146 votes) and Jacquenet Oxilus (132 votes). [1] [2] [3]

Death

According to the investigation report of the Central Directorate of Judicial Police, the "named Modelet Sénégeau alias Abidy, Mackender Fils-Aimé, Dunès Vilpique alias Jah, Markenson Charles alias Cobra, Gerson Laurent alias TiLuc or Louko, Richelet Augustin, Johny Toussaint and others, joined together as criminals to assassinate citizen Monferrier Dorval, President of the Ordre des Avocats de Port-au-Prince". [4]

Legacy

The "Monferrier Dorval Award of Excellence" was created by the Executive Council of the State University of Haiti following a resolution adopted on September 15, 2020. "The prize will be awarded each year to the student who succeeds in writing the best bachelor's thesis, the best master's thesis and the best thesis in law." [5]

On September 18, 2020, Quisqueya University paid tribute to Bâtonnier Monferrier Dorval in the presence of several professors including former ministers and other political figures. [6]

The Council of the Paris Bar Association adopted a motion in honor of the memory of Monferrier Dorval on September 1, 2020, and awarded him the posthumous title of honorary member and met on September 18 to pay him a final tribute. [7] On this occasion, Olivier Cousi, the President of the Bar of Paris pronounced, "We are not only paying tribute to a friend who left too early but to a defender of rights and freedoms." [8]

Related Research Articles

Port-au-Prince Capital of Haiti

Port-au-Prince is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is defined by the IHSI as including the communes of Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Cite Soleil, Tabarre, Carrefour and Pétion-Ville.

Haiti national football team Mens national association football team representing Haiti

The Haiti national football team represents Haiti in international football. Haiti is administered by the Fédération Haïtienne de Football (FHF), the governing body for football in Haiti. They have been a member of FIFA since 1934, a member of CONCACAF since 1961 and a member of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) since 1978. Haiti's home ground is Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince and the team's manager is Jean-Jacques Pierre.

The Bar of Quebec is the regulatory body for the practice of advocates in the Canadian province of Quebec and one of two legal regulatory bodies in the province. It was founded on May 30, 1849, as the Bar of Lower Canada.

State University of Haiti University in Haiti

The State University of Haiti is one of Haiti's most prestigious institutions of higher education. It is located in Port-au-Prince.

Edmond Rousse

Aimé Joseph Edmond Rousse was a French lawyer, and member of the Académie française from 1880 until his death. He was born and died in Paris.

Gary Klang, is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist. Since 2007, he is the president of the prestigious "Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique". Klang's work is very rich. It includes novels, poetry, short stories and essays. On July 14, 2000, "l'Union Française à Montréal" chose Gary as the promoter of the French national holiday marking the storming of the Bastille. The same day, the same French Union participated in the launch of his collection of verses "La terre est vide comme une étoile". Gary Klang is also a member of the "Association des Ecrivains Québécois (UNEQ)", a member of the "Association des Ecrivains de langue française" and of the PEN Club of Montreal. He was nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, together with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Dany Laferrière, Josaphat-Robert Large and Leslie Manigat.

Hermanie Pierre is a Haitian-American civil engineer and public figure. She is best known for her role as Miss Haiti International, a title she won in 2012 while also earning Miss Congeniality in the Miss International Pageant the same year. Pierre is a civil engineer where she works on road projects for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. She was also named one of 20 in their 20s Most Influential Leaders by Arkansas Business in 2013.

Paulette Poujol-Oriol

Paulette Poujol-Oriol was a Haitian educator, actress, dramaturge, feminist and writer. Fluent in French, Creole, English, Spanish, German, and Italian, she contributed to Haitian arts and literature, and founded Picolo Teatro, a performing arts school for children. She has been recognized as one of Haiti's leading literary figures as well as one of the most active players in Haiti's feminist movement.

Mona Guérin was a Haitian educator and writer.

Emmelie Prophète

Emmelie Prophète is a Haitian writer and diplomat.

Pierre Vernet

Pierre Vernet was a Haitian linguist and lexicographer, who created the Center for Applied Linguistics in Port-au-Prince. He was instrumental in standardizing Haitian Creole (Krèyol) spelling as an aid to literacy, and the elaboration of French-Krèyol lexicons of terminology. He also published dictionaries with Alain Bentolila and with Bryant Freeman.

Jean-René Farthouat was a French lawyer who served as Bâtonnier of the Paris Bar Association from 1994 to 1995.

Luc Argand is a Swiss lawyer, and a partner at the Kellerhals Carrard law firm since 2019. Prior to that, he was a senior partner at the De Pfyffer law firm in Geneva. He is a former Chairman of the Geneva Bar Association.

Jean-Yves Moyart, sometimes known as Maître Mô was a French criminal lawyer and blogger.

Roland Weyl was a French Resistance militant and lawyer. He joined the Paris Bar in 1939, but was banned due to the German Occupation. He became Dean of the Paris Bar Association in 2010.

Ariel Henry Haitian politician and neurosurgeon (born 1949)

Ariel Henry is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who has served as the acting prime minister of Haiti and the acting president of Haiti since 20 July 2021. He later became involved in a controversy due to his refusal to cooperate with the authorities over his links with Joseph Felix Badio, one of the suspects accused of orchestrating the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on 7 July 2021. Officers who investigated the case suspected Henry was involved with planning the assassination.

Antoinette Duclaire was a Haitian feminist and political activist.

Chems-Eddine Hafiz Franco-Algerian lawyer

Chems-eddine Mohamed Hafiz, born 28 June 1954 in Algiers, is a Franco-Algerian lawyer, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris since 11 January 2020.

Olivier Cousi was a French lawyer.

References

  1. 1 2 Winnie Hugot Gabriel Duvil (September 16, 2020). "Qui était Monferrier Dorval ?". Le Nouvelliste (in French). Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Monferrier Dorval nouveau bâtonnier de l'ordre des avocats". Haiti24 (in French). February 7, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
    - "10 dates clés de la vie de Me Monferrier Dorval". Loop. September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Woovins St Phard. "Monferrier Dorval : le portrait de l'intellectuel engagé". Le National. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Assassinat de Me Monferrier Dorval : la DCPJ identifie exécutants et complices". Haiti24 (in French). September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Worlgenson Noël. "L'Université d'État d 'Haïti crée le " Prix d'excellence Monferrier Dorval"". Le Nouvelliste (in French). Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ "L'Université Quisqueya rend hommage au bâtonnier Monferrier Dorval". Le Nouvelliste. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
    - "Hommage au Professeur Monferrier Dorval". Quisqueya University. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Le Barreau de Paris rendra un dernier hommage vendredi à Me Monferrier Dorval après lui avoir attribué le titre posthume de membre d'honneur". Rezo Nòdwès (in French). September 17, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Assassinat du Bâtonnier de Port-au-Prince : Le Barreau de Paris rend hommage à Me Monferrier Dorval". Vant Bèf Info (in French). September 18, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.